Fun Halloween party games for young children..
Gather the boo's and ghouls and play these safe and easy Halloween games! Great for Halloween parties!
Make your own scary eyeballs with ping pong balls or buy them from a hobby or craft store.
Set up a course and form teams. Give each child a spoon and one eyeball.
Rules:
The first person on each team walks the entire course carrying their eye on the spoon.
If they drop an eyeball it must be picked up only using the spoon (no touching the eye with hands!)
When the person reaches the starting line, the next team member walks the course with their spoon and eyeball.
The game continues until all team members have completed the course.
The first team to complete the entire course wins the coveted "Eyeball race award"!
Have a Doppleganger of a good good time with these scary silhouettes.
Purchase easel pads or rolls of butcher paper.
Provide crayons or markers. Scissors optional.
Rules:
Form teams of two or three children.
Tape two easel pad pages together, place the large paper on the floor and have one child lay down on top of the paper.
Instruct the other team member(s) to trace the child's form using dark colored crayons or markers.
Repeat until all children have their own silhouette.
Next, have each child color their silhouette and make scary faces and crazy, scary hair!
Tape the finished result to the wall and take photographs of each child with their evil twin, Doppleganger!
Rules:
Have all the children form a circle.
Give one child a ball of black yarn to start the game.
Have each child toss the ball of yarn to the child opposite them in the circle.
Make sure they hold onto a piece of the yarn before they toss the ball to their opposite.
Pretty soon they will create a giant spider web of yarn!
Alternative Spider web game: (for outside - or brave hosts!)
Give each child a can of black or orange silly string
Have all the children form a circle.
Have each child spray directly toward the child opposite them in the circle.
Pretty soon all the kids will be tangled up into a giant spider web!
Purchase inexpensive rolls of white toilet paper
Rules:
Form teams of children and have the teams take turns wrapping each other in the toilet paper head to toe!
Make sure to leave eyes and noses uncovered.
Play Blind Mummy's Monster Bluff (next game below)
Clear a room or yard space to remove all objects the children could trip over.
Purchase glowsticks.
Use large hankerchiefs or toilet paper to blindfold one child.
Rules:
Dim the lights and give all children a glowstick.
Instruct all the children to gather in the designated area around the blindfolded mummy and walk around acting like mummies and zombies. They can softly moan and groan like monsters.
When the blindfolded mummy touches another mummy, the one tagged has to howl like a monster and then gets blindfolded to continue the game. The first mummy's blindfold is removed and the child can either continue the game or sit on the sidelines and enjoy watching.
Hint: Making the game a process of elimination ensures an ending to the mayhem - otherwise it may go on until exhaustion!
Using white easel pad paper, draw a large one-eyed monster but leave blank the space where the eye goes.
Hang the drawing, kid-height, on a wall.
Have the children color and cut out eyes for the monster.
Rules:
Place double-stick tape on the back of each child's evil eye. Blindfold one child at a time and give each blindfolded child a chance to stick the eye on the monster. The one who gets closest to the monster's eye socket wins the game and receives the coveted Monster Award!
